I am looking to get a full context understanding of the various mechanisms that make up the computer world with a focus on data accumulation. My current school focus reflects this but I find it lacks the depth, or perhaps, the density of what I need to understand fully, so I have been supplementing with outside resources.

Here is the problem, everything interests me, therefore one day I’ll watch a video on programming, the next, data mining, the next, something else…. So I was wondering if someone of your context could light a path for me, a general direction on what to focus on, in what order.

Or a link to an online education website.

I imagine this is a little out of the norm for a question, but outside of speaking to those who understand the industry, have been through the training already, I do not know how else to glimpse in to the future here.